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I don't know what you guys are talking about

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: June 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This BluRay version is INCREDIBLE. I have read some of the reviews that people have posted so far, but I find they are quite innacurate.

First of all, it LOOKS amazing. It is crystal clear, and in widescreen format. I don't have a surround sound set up, but it sounds great through stereo. It DOES have the little BEEP and BOOP sounds to let you know if you did the right action, just like the arcade.

Secondly, the concerns of the first reviewers are pretty inaccurate, because their complaints can be fixed by adjusting the 6 or 7 settings that can completely change the gameplay experience. I haven't gone through all of them, but here is what I have found so far:

HOME vs ARCADE: I haven't gone in depth yet, but when I had it on Arcade mode, it didn't start at the moat/drawbridge scene. On Home mode it DOES start there, which is how I'm used to it, so that is how I have it set. I assume that there are other differences in scene order, although aside from the beginning scene, the scenes are random.

EASY vs HARD I starded the game on easy, and it seems like you don't really have to bother that much with timing, and it is more forgiving with mistakes. Hard is VERY time specific, and you can't really make many mistakes before hitting the right button, just like the original. Fantastic. I'm getting my butt kicked. :)

SIGNALS You have an option to turn on visual clues. Haven't bothered with this yet.

There are some other settings like unlimited lives verses 5 lives, and other stuff I don't remember at the moment, but basically they drastically change the playing experience. You can tweak it to be exactly like the Arcade, or maybe taylor it more to the version you like best.

Somebody claimed that the game was not true to the arcade version because if you failed a level, it just skipped it and you never would get to try it again. Well that reviewer jumped the gun because although it skips it right after you die, you eventually must come back to all the levels you died on, and it will NOT let you pass the second time until you finally get them right. This is true when it is on HOME mode at least, but I haven't played it on ARCADE mode enough to know how it handles failed levels.

The timing between clips is great on my PS3. About 95% of the time there is no pauses or anything, but usually, on the scenes where you make a mistake, there is a slight, split second pause before the death scene.

This is the best version of the game available. It made my whole week better just being able to play it in all of it's glory.

Nostalgic? YES. Perfect? Hmmm...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 15
Date: April 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I ordered this a couple of weeks ago straight from Digital Leisure (although I paid double). Anyways today, I received it in the mail and proceeded immediately to play it. It was not shrink wrapped or anything but it was in tact. I am an old school gamer and grew up with a lot of these Laser Disc games, a lot of unknowns at that, some anime looking ones if I remember correctly. ANYWAYS...

As for the game:
This is a huge step up from the DVD version. It transitions very smoothly and looks mighty beautiful on my Sony KDL-40V2500, at 1080p, it dam right awesome and with all the good nostalgic feelings coming back.
The audio is nothing to brag about in my opinion. I had to turn it up more than I usually do and I am running a Harman Kardon w/Polk monitors.

There's a big BUT -

If you remember how this game is suppose to play, there are movement guides so you know what button to press. This function does not work correctly... Dirk's sword is suppose to glow when you have to use it and I have yet to see it happen. Although in some scenes you are guided, it is very inconsistent and the occasional beep that is suppose to accompany it does not alway happen either. Because of this, it is not much fun to play like I remember. This bug pretty much ruins the game play, and all you can do it do a lot of guess work. Oh and yes there is a function to turn on the movement guides, but yeah... it does not work to a satisfactory level. -_-


EDIT: Actually I remember correctly now. Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp had the sword glowing when you had to use it. Sorry for the confusion. >_<

best version so far, but should have been better..........

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: April 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I had the ps2 version. I even had the old grainy sega cd version. I grew up playing the game in the arcades. Anyway, I tried playing it on my Sony standalone player which usually takes a minute to boot up for a movie. This game took forever to load!!!!! Okay, that I can live with, but then the menu screens were pausing and not displaying correctly. And before you start wondering, Yes my player's already gotten the firmware upgrade. Even that i can live with. So I tried playing the game, which probably looks and sounds better than it ever did in the arcades. But Dig. leasure should have held out a Lil longer so they could have perfected the gameplay. How? I'll tell you.....
1) When you make a mistake, It just skips the scene and you never go back. The arcade made you do it over and over until you got it right, which to me was fun yet costly to my pockets back then.
2) The arcade made beeping and blooping sounds to let you know when you were supossed to move and whether it was the right move, which would help since I'm using a dvd remote and not a joystick. Half the time' I'm not sure if its that i made a wrong move or if i wasnt pointing the remote at the player correctly.
3) The one scene that you must do correctly is the dropping platform scene, which was practically a freebee in the arcades. But it kills me off even when I do It right. Maybe it's because the remote might have a delay?

If you wanna buy this to reminisce the old days, it's ok, but dont expect perfect gameplay. Maybe the next big format(SUPER BLU-HD DVD?) will get it right. if you cant wait, try to find an old arcade cabinet version. If you can find one.

Listed incorrectly

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: June 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is listed as a PS3 title - that is absolutely wrong. It is a Blu-ray product and can be played on your stand-alone Blu-ray player. This means it can ALSO be played on the PS3 as well, since it's a Blu-ray player.

AMAZON FIX THIS!!!

(I picked middle values for the ratings because I have never touched this product but had to rate it to post the review)

Buggy implementation of a classic

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was looking forward to this based on my memories of the arcade version. I wish I'd waited until the reviews showed up.The first challenge - works as expected. If you die, you go back to the start of the game. After that, it throws you into a random sequence if you die, making it nearly impossible to complete anything, because you only get one try. If you're patient, it'll eventually start behaving properly again, and you can actually play it as a game.The default setup is also poor; you need to turn on indicators to actually be able to play it.As a piece of history, it's interesting. As a game, it doesn't have a lot to offer.

Good classic made bad by a bug

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This all time classic would be tons of fun to play were it not for a bug that prevents signaling of which direction to go in even though that option is turned on.

This game was not as fun as I thought it would be!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is bad. The picture delay for this game is incredibly difficult to deal with. For the PS2 format maybe but for PS3 no way!

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